The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-21

Local and Personal.

ing week 1856; increase this year, 127 cars.
There wero transferred over the Belt road last
week 10, 72i cars against g. l60 the correspond
ing week 1885, increase this year, l,56l cars
Grand Master Sergeant, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen. spent yesterday In
Terre Haute, and gave the boys pleasant talk.
ExPresident Watrous of the New York, New
Haven 81 Hartford road received salary OF |
$17500 President Clark will receive $40. 000 |
per annum
The five Western lines last week brought into |
this station 1864 loaded cars. against 3 1868 IN |
the week ending March IL. and against 3, 800 the
corresponding week of 1886.
The I'VE leading Eastern lines last week for |
warded from this point 3, sos loaded cars. against
3,262 in the week endine.March II. and against |
2,49o the corresponding week Of 1886.
Michael Richard of Utica, who has for long |
time been in charge of passenger train engine |
On the New York Central road, has been nomi- |
dated for Railroad Commissioner OF New York.
Seven passenger conductors on the Kentucky
Central have resigned. One of these had been
On the road for thirty two years and the others
from two to twenty years. the reason OF their
resignation has not been made public.
The Bee-line is hauling east FIVE hundred car
loads of oats shipped by Bartlett. Kuhn & Co,
Terre Haute. The Terre Haute Gazette says
that this is the largest shipment which has been
made by one firm from that city in many years.
O. II. Torrance, division superintendent of the
Nebraska division of the Union Pacific road. at
Omaha, has resigned on account OF i'll health.
For the present his duties will be performed by
the assistant general superintendent E. Dickin-
son.
The Wabash is doing light business out of
indianapolis now that the other roads are max
Ang about the same rates that it is alleged the
Wabash has been making since their exhibit in
the pool percentages has been so favorable TO the
road.
Only Thursday last President Adams told
newspaper reporter that there was truth In
the rumors that the relations between the d.
rectors OF the road or the president and Man
ager Galloway were not of harmonious char
acter.
1t is suggested that the Secretary Of the In
terror should bestir himself to provide accommo-
dations for the commissioners under the inter-
state commerce law. and for their voluminous
documents, as tariff sheets will soon pour IN on
The commissioners by the carloads
After April roads in the hands Of receivers
,3r roads which pass into the hands of receivers
thereafter, must publish their rates, the same as
roads which steer clear OF bankruptcy. For
acme years past the greatest rate demoralizers
have been roads in the hands OF receivers.
1t is gratifying to note that several roads take
the generous side of the question regarding
furnishing passes to the families of employees
after the new law takes effect, as we'll as to the
employees. The Bee-line management for in
stance, take the ground that each company has
the right to do as they please on this matter.
Last week seems to have been field week
with the Bee line. There were handled at the
yards in Brishtwood 5,203 cars. of which num-
Der 4, 443 were loaded cars. The Decline proper
forwarded 1890 loaded cars and brought in l..
ITS OF the LAO received and forwarded over
the l. s. st. L. division. 1875 were loaded cars.
St. Louis has rough time in securing new
railroads AS the st-Dispatch puts it. the
Legislature will not allow new road 10 come
ju over the tracks Of an old one, and the City
Council will not permit new one to come in
over its own tracks. Thus, between Scyla and
Chary bdis, St. Louis is having the life strangled
out Of her.
The collection of the tax voted in Knox coun.
~ in aid of the Vincennes g. New Albany rail
road has been suspended by the county officers
until the road is permanently located through
che townships voting the tax. This does not in
validate the amount voted, but simply carries it
forward on the tax books until the railroad COM
plies with the conditions of the grant
Civil Engineer Prittchard. of Philadelphia,
who claims to have carried off valuable evidence
from the scene of the Dedham disaster to u news
paper Office in another State. did not do very
creditable thing, in the interest of the
public The Railroad Commissioners of Massa-
chusetts ought to take possession of all debris
of such an affair at once, and not allow it to be
picked over by Tom. Dick ana Harry.
Judge Brewer. to-day, in the United States
Circuit Court chambers, in st. Louis, will rem :
der his decision in regard to the petition of the
Wabash purchasing committee, Of New York.
The purchasing committee applied for the privi-
lege of releasing that division Of the Wabash
system known as the wabash Western" from
the court and turning 1t over to the newly IN
corporated Germany favorable decision is
expected by da committee.
THE fgh. .hich the Illinois legislators are
making against the railroads in revenge for the
withdrawal of their free passes" says the Pitts
burg Dispatch, lis more striking illustration
of the microscopic calibre of the alleged states
men than anything else. Still, the Illinois rail-
roads do not seem to be as smart as the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, which keeps out it's passes to the
State Legislators regardless of constitutional or
congressional enactments."
The railroads leading east from Chicago are
heavily cutting rates for grain carrying. On
Saturday morning the Pennsylvania line put in
effect a sixteen-cent rate grain to Philadel.
phia. with rebate, and the Vanderbilt lines at
once followed with sixteen cent rate to New
York. which is equivalent to the Pennsylvania
rate, counting the established differential of two
cents between the two cities. The B. e. O. is
understood to be making a ffteeu-cent rate to
Baltimore
The report that the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Be company hee aeheme for an extension to
New York is denied by President Strong who
says the company is contemplating no extension
east OF Chicago. AS late as January last the
railroad reporter of the Journal was shown a
letter written by President Strong himself, in
which he stated the company had no idea of
building line to Chicago. One seldom goes
amiss when he takes the statements of railroad
men on important matters just the opposite to
what they say.
d. II. Conkln, general manager of the Terre
Haute & Peoria road, is strengthening out the
affairs of the company and increasing the bust.
ness ofsthe road, now that he has good backing.
Within the next thirty days he will make a
number of changes. the road is to be operated
In two divisions, Decatur Ill. being the division
point and headquarters Of che train disnatchers.
Passenger trains will be run through as at pres
emit. but freight-tran crews will only be-
tween the southern terminus and Decatur and
the northern terminus and Decatur
A meeting of all lines in the territory of the
Central Traffic Association is called, a,
the Grand Pacific Hotel Chicago. Wednesday
March 90, at 10 o'clock A. Nj. George H. Dan
\ iels. assistant commissioner, says: THE early
data Dtprst ta l,p